The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 17J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... observations ; for from fome book or other of the age , I have no doubt almost every combination of words that may be found in our author , however uncouth it may ap- pear to our ears , or however different from modern phrafeology ...
... observations ; for from fome book or other of the age , I have no doubt almost every combination of words that may be found in our author , however uncouth it may ap- pear to our ears , or however different from modern phrafeology ...
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... observed , in defence of this emendation , that the word termagaunt originally the proper name of a clamorous Saracenical deity ) did not , without palling through feveral gra- dations of meaning , become appropriated ( as at prefent ) ...
... observed , in defence of this emendation , that the word termagaunt originally the proper name of a clamorous Saracenical deity ) did not , without palling through feveral gra- dations of meaning , become appropriated ( as at prefent ) ...
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... observe it , that the reader may more readily admit the liberties which the editors of this author's works have neceffarily taken . JOHNSON . The old reading may be right . It feems to allude to An- tony's acknowledged neglect in aiding ...
... observe it , that the reader may more readily admit the liberties which the editors of this author's works have neceffarily taken . JOHNSON . The old reading may be right . It feems to allude to An- tony's acknowledged neglect in aiding ...
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... observe and confider your words and actions . " STEEVENS . The metre of this line is deficient . It will be perfect , and the fenfe rather clearer , if we read ( without altering a letter ) : your confideratest one . I doubt , indeed ...
... observe and confider your words and actions . " STEEVENS . The metre of this line is deficient . It will be perfect , and the fenfe rather clearer , if we read ( without altering a letter ) : your confideratest one . I doubt , indeed ...
Page 156
... observed , that trull was not , in our author's time , a term of mere infamy , but a word of flight contempt , as wench is now . JOHNSON . Trull is ufed in The First Part of King Henry VI . as fyno- nymous to harlot , and is rendered by ...
... observed , that trull was not , in our author's time , a term of mere infamy , but a word of flight contempt , as wench is now . JOHNSON . Trull is ufed in The First Part of King Henry VI . as fyno- nymous to harlot , and is rendered by ...
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PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,Isaac 1742-1807 Reed,Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson No preview available - 2016 |
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